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...Latin phrase at the time (taken from the Roman poet Horace), which was used on many memorials and monuments to justify death in service of one’s country. Owen argues that if people at home could see the horrors that he had witnessed they might not be so inclined to rehearse this patriotic rhetoric (‘The old lie’). Some published versions of the poem are addressed to...

...Latin word communicare, meaning ‘to give’ or ‘to share’. So it is clear that the idea of communication has always involved more than one person – there are always those who send a message of some kind and those who receive it. Having good communication skills involves being aware of both sender and receiver. Communication takes many forms, for example: talking...

...Latin. As it happens, he was writing about what had become French. And so there are always people worrying about these things and the planet somehow seems to keep spinning. And so the way I'm thinking of texting these days is that what we're seeing is a whole new way of writing that young people are developing, which they're using alongside their ordinary writing skills....